Friday, April 11, 2014

I Have Got To Figure Out A Way

Anti-Racism Activists on Colbert: We Will Protest This Until It Ends
Suey Park @suey_park Eunsong Kim @clepsydras April 10, 2014
#cancelcolbert

The marginalization of other voices is now complete.

The cross-promotion of more white male celebrities prove it: The entertainment industry has perfected the development of white, cis, straight, male characters. The marginalization of “other voices” — except when those “others” are brought in only to aid in the cheap punch line of a joke — is complete. This is aggression that we do not have to accept. We will protest this until it ends.

Many dismissed the protest we undertook last month with #CancelColbert, a hashtag we set up in response to a blatantly racist Tweet about Asians from the Colbert show’s account...

There are those say the American manufacturing sector dead.

To those people I say, nonsense! Our manufactured wingnut outrage factories are already running flat out, day and night, and the demand for this fine, Made-Up-In-America product just keeps growing!

I do not fully understand this post of yours. Are you saying that there are more important things to be outraged about than Colbert's satirical use of racist words? Or are you saying that Asian Americans should not be outraged at all at Colbert's use of racist words.

@CM - Colbert's use of racist words was solely intended to align the subtle racism of Dan Snyder with the obvious racism of Colbert's fake foundation. Many people do not get why the name "Redskins" is racist, and especially so when used in the name of a foundation supposedly intended to help our indigenous people. By aligning it with an obviously racist "Ching Chong Ding Dong" fake Foundation the racism of the real foundation is made much more obvious.

I think DG's reference to the Colbert Report actually ending was a "joke".